[kde] Bizarre custom shortcut result

[James Richard Tyrer]

Richard Fish wrote:
> Pavel Avgustinov wrote:
> 
>> Richard Fish wrote:
>>
>>> I'm using keyboard model "HP Internet Keyboard" with the "US English" 
>>> layout, so '<' is actually produced with "Shift-,", and '>' is 
>>> produced with "Shift-.".
>>>
>>> So in reality, I should have written above "...KDE sees both 
>>> 'Alt+Shift+,' and 'Alt+Shift+.' as 'Alt->'.  It is important to note 
>>> that I see this with _only_ the keybinding dialog.  '<' and '>' are 
>>> generated correctly for every other KDE application and input.  
>>> Addtionally, 'Alt+Shift+,' produces no characters in any other KDE 
>>> application.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Isn't this exactly the correct behaviour? On your keyboard (and mine, 
>> for that matter), "Shift+," == "<", and hence alt+shift+, == alt+<. 
>> There is no way to press an additional shift key to produce "shift+<" 
>> as shift needs to be pressed to get "<" in the first place.
> 
> 
> 
> But I do not get "alt+<" when I press "alt+shift+,".  I get "alt+>".  
> Are you saying that you get "alt+<" in the keybinding dialog with these 
> keys?

IWFM.  See attached.

So, unless this is a bug that was fixed in the last few days, I have no 
idea what is causing your problem.

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JRT
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